Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Softness to traitors will destroy us all.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.

Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.